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Literary Elements
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ESL Literary devices
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What is the sequence of events?
the effect
The place in which the story happens
The order in which the events happen
the cause
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What is author's purpose?
who tells the story
The reason the author writes the story
How the story is written
things that are true and things that are beliefs
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What is a narrator?
the way in which the events of a story happen
Who tells the story
how the story make you feel
how the story develops
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What is tone?
the manner of expression in writing
something many people believe
how the reader feels while reading
what will happen
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What is a fact? What is an opinion?
The little things. The big things.
The present. The past.
Something true. Something people believe.
The language in the story. The images in the story.
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What is theme?
something we can guess
the central point of the story
differences and similiraties
the use of words or phrases in a non-literal way
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What does it mean to "draw conclusions"?
to find the differences and similarities in the story
to use clues from the story to figure out more of the story
to say what the story means
to find the problem
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What is foreshadowing?
When the story hints that something is going to happen
Who is involved in the story
What happened in the past
What is true and what is something people believe
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What is plot?
the problem of the story
the main character
the main events of a novel; beginning, middle, and end
an object represents something greater than itself
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What is a character?
The result of what happens
A person in the story
Where the story takes place
What makes the story happen
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What is the antagonist/protagonist?
what creates something
the major character/the person against the major character
the results of something
how the reader feels
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What are details?
what the reader thinks will happen
a glimpse from the past
little things mentioned in the story
a prediction of the future
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What is mood?
the authors manner of expression
the lesson of the story
how the reader feels
the perspective of the story
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What is setting?
the problem of the story
how the story is written
how the reader feels
The place where the story takes place
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What is conflict in a story?
little things that add to the story
The solution
The main problem of the story
something we can conclude
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What is point of view?
where the story takes place
the view from which the story is narrated
the meaning of the story
what is likely to happen next in the story
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What does it mean to compare and contrast?
To find the similarities and differences between two things
the reason for writing a story
the central topic
to think about what will happen
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What is a cause?
The central topic of the story.
What makes something happen
The result.
The purpose of the story.
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What is the main idea?
the problem in the story
the ending
what happened in the story
the big point of the story
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What is summary?
a memory
an account of the main points of the story
what will happen in the future
little things that add to the story
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What is style?
the author's unique way of writing
the page length
the characters in the story
the central topic of the story
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What is an inference?
What we cannot conclude
Something we can conclude based off of evidence
How the story ends
What happens in the story
